Semmel biography
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Joan Semmel
American feminist painter, professor emeritus (born 1932)
Joan Semmel (born October 19, 1932) is an American feministpainter and professor emeritus in painting.[1] She is best known for her large-scale naturalistic nudeself portraits as seen from her perspective looking down.[2]
Education and political involvement
[edit]Semmel was born in New York City. She began her artistic training at Cooper Union, where she studied under Nicholas Marsicano.[3] She went on to study with Morris Kantor[3] at the Art Students League of New York before earning a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1963.[4][5]
She spent seven and a half years in Spain (1963–1970), where her work, "gradually developed from broad gestural and spatially referenced painting to compositions of a somewhat surreal figure/ground composition...(her) highly saturated brilliant color separated (her) paintings from the leading Spanish artists whose wor
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Stuart Semmel
Stuart Semmel teaches courses on modern British history, British imperial history, global history, political thought, and historical consciousness. He is the Associate Head of Pauli Murray College.
He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His book Napoleon and the British (Yale, 2004), shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year prize, considers British political uses of Napoleon Bonaparte. Other publications include articles on tourism and radical politics. A current research project treats early nineteenth-century British print culture and propaganda.
Before coming to Yale, Semmel was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Delaware. He has also taught at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, American University, Peking University, and Yale-NUS College. He has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center and the Penn Humanities Forum. Courses include “From Oligarchy to Democracy: Britain, 1780-1914,” “Britain’s Emp
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